Read the text and match the statements to the paragraphs. 1. It is not until we feel sick that we realize how lucky we are to have good health. But imagine having an illness all your life, and not really understanding how it is to hear or see things. Most people have no idea how this would affect us.
2. Andrea Clark, a young woman from the USA, had problems with her ears all her life. She had never been able to hear anything properly, including the voices of her family or her boyfriend.
3. She went to the University of Mississippi hospital, to have an operation on her ears. As soon as the operation had finished, the doctor asked if Andrea could hear anything. She said she could, but everything sounded very strange.
4. Then she was taken to meet her boyfriend, who had never been able to speak to her before. The first thing he said, and the first thing Andrea heard, was “Will you marry me?” Andrea immediately started to cry. She had never been so happy before.
5. Kathy Smith, from Canada, had been blind since a very young age. She had a disease which meant that her eyes and vision got worse and worse. When she was older, she became a mother.
6. When her baby was born, Kathy was given a pair of special new glasses, which helped blind people to see things. She saw her baby and recognized his face. “He has my mouth”, she said. She had never seen a baby before.
7. Not only that, but it was also the first time she was able to see her husband holding her baby. For Kathy, it was the happiest feeling of all, being able to see the two people she loved most.
8. The glasses that Kathy wore cannot help everyone who is blind, and are very expensive, costing around $15,000. But for some people, perhaps, being able to see your own baby for the first time is worth paying every penny.

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  • Many of us don’t know how it is to be blind or deaf.
  • One deaf woman had never heard her family spoke.
  • All things around sounded very unusual.
  • The first words someone said made the partner very happy.
  • One woman who could not see had a baby.
  • The new technology helped the woman see her child for the first time.
  • Being able to see the two people made the person very happy.
  • Sometimes, paying a lot for something can be a good thing.